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...initiative to provide newspapers with an additional way to compete for readers is rooted in a basic tenet of AP journalism: impartiality. You equate different styles of writing a spot news story with changing the facts. Facts remain the same. Objective journalistic styles for writing facts are myriad. In our advisory we solicit comment about our initiative from editors. Yours is the first to equate writing styles with “editorializing” or “bias...
...United Front has done a commendable job of pursuing a vision that is notably organized and focused. While recent student group initiatives have been plagued by pursuing myriad, at times conflicting, causes, the United Front has avoided these problems and is pushing a clear message. Students should make every effort to attend this protest thereby sending a powerful message to Harvard—and the rest of the world. Skip breakfast, lose a precious hour of sleep, and do something that will make a difference. The more people who show up today, the more powerful the statement will be. Make...
...admissions process at the University of Michigan (UM). Treating race as one factor among many, both Harvard and UM (which won the legal battle) seek to admit a diverse student body. With classes composed of a wide range of ethnicities and backgrounds, each individual Harvard student benefits from the myriad perspectives their peers bring to the table. The logic is simple. But in practice, Harvard’s well-known policy of treating race as a factor in admissions decisions can tempt students into looking for every extra advantage on their applications...
...cites as evidence the myriad techniques Harvardians use to get the highest grades for the least effort: duping TFs with intentionally garbled e-mail attachments, forming study groups to avoid heavy reading, writing jargon-heavy papers that manage to avoid any empirical evidence and still snatch...
...We’re not going to have the myriad clubs and sports teams,” Evans adds. “If you’re headed to the NBA, you might not want to come [to CCSC...